Madison Heights police are looking for an elderly man after they say he talked his way into an 83-year-old widow’s house for coffee and stole her wallet when she wasn’t looking.

The woman told police Wednesday afternoon she heard a knock on her door and saw an elderly man on her porch holding a UPS package that had just been delivered to her.

“He asked her if he could come in for a cup of coffee,” said Madison Heights Lt. Robert Anderson. “When she told him she didn’t know him, he told her his name was Larry and he lived four houses away on a nearby cross street. He also told her he knew she is a widow and he just wanted to visit with her.”

The woman let the man in and made a pot of coffee.

Over the next 45 minutes the man drank four cups of coffee and then asked to use the bathroom, police said.

The woman told police she turned around after the man used the bathroom and saw him standing in her living room.

The man told her he was just looking at the woman’s backyard, but she became suspicious and told the man he had to leave because she had things to do.

The man asked the woman to make more coffee. She refused but gave him a glass of water and walked him to the front porch, police said. She told police she saw the man grab a black plastic garbage bag he had left on the porch and walk away.

Inside her house the woman found her purse had been moved on a kitchen chair. She looked inside and found her wallet missing and called police.

A neighbor later told police the man had gotten out of the passenger side of a newer black Chevrolet Suburban before he went into the woman’s house.

The man is described as white, 65 to 75 years old and walked with a forward lean. He was wearing a black windbreaker and dark pants.

“It appears he had some information about the victim but we have no idea at this point how he targeted her,” Anderson said. “Obviously, he used his age to his advantage to gain her trust.”

Police went to the woman’s house and collected the coffee cup and glass the man drank from for possible DNA and fingerprint evidence.

Anyone with information is asked to call Madison Heights police at 248-585-2100.